The Amiable Wackjob

Mike Huckabee is so affable. He's friendly and funny and he made funny commercials with Chuck Norris.

Earlier this week, on my favorite TV show of all time (The View, of course), the Huckster was talking about gay marriage. And what he said at one point was totally true: some people will never see eye-to-eye on the issue.

But he went on to say that the reason gays don't qualify for individual civil rights protection is because they haven't been the victims of violence the way that black people were during the civil rights movement.

First of all, it's apples and oranges (or rather, blacks and gays). You start getting into sticky territory when you compare one oppressed group with another oppressed group, or one mass genocide to another mass genocide, or any current leader to Hitler.

And anyway, Reverend Governor Huckabee, you affable bigot, gay people get beaten and killed all the time. Matthew Shepard? Harvey Milk? And those are just a couple of famous ones.

So tell us, Mr. Pro-Life: how many gay people need to die before they're finally oppressed enough to need protection under the law? What level of violence is acceptable to you, Christian Leader, before gay people reach the threshold you're looking for?

Beware the amiable wackjob!